Dealwatch: What’s been selling in 2021 so far?
After the heavy turbulence of 2020, the industry returned from the festive break hopeful for a smoother ride in 2021; high-profile agencies were predicting big things for sales volumes and portals reported their busiest ever start to a year, but have buyers been getting on board? Here's some notable sales successes from the first few weeks of the year to give an indication of what's been shifting at the upper end...
£111 million mega-deal recorded at One Hyde Park
Latest Land Registry records reveal a huge transaction at the world famous Knightsbridge development, which launched a decade ago.
Deal Digest: 16 super-prime property sales from 2021 so far
As we learned last week, super-prime buyers were out in force in the first six months of the year, splurging nearly US$14 billion on homes in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, London, Sydney, Singapore…
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